Saturday, January 26, 2013

Your gifts are blessings...

This is an older impact story, simple, but shows how very much your shoebox is a blessing.

Algeria, 2003 - Three years ago we distributed one container of shoeboxes

4/27/2009

Three years ago we
distributed one container of shoeboxes. This year I stayed in a camp
near that distribution site. One night a lady came to the reception area
where I was and asked to see me. She had a note from a child that had
been in a box she received three years ago. She had kept the note
-actually, it looked like it had just been opened. She talked with us
about how her children had been so glad to receive the gifts and she
wanted to write the family that had sent the shoebox. So we wrote a
thank you letter for her and talked with her for some time. She invited
us to her tent for tea the next night. When we got there and saw her
tent I realized that she was very poor. A baby lay on the floor and she
said the child was hers. I asked her how old the baby was and she said
nine months. Later she told us the child only weighed five kilos (approx
12 lbs.). She served us tea, gave us gifts, and kept telling us how
blessed she was to receive a gift -no matter that it was three years
ago. We shared with her about why we were there -because we loved Jesus
and wanted to share with her and also how that families that care about
the Sahrawi had put together the gifts. We were touched and blessed by
her generosity and her gratefulness.

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HI!!! I am Rhonda and I am a year round volunteer with Operation Christmas Child here in the Klamath Area and in case you couldn't tell yet, I LOVE OCC!

I hope that at this blog you are inspired to pack boxes, to pray, and to share the news about Operation Christmas Child with others in your life.

To God be the glory!

“How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!” (Romans 10:14-15)

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Or if you learned about it too late this year, or time slipped away, you can still build a shoebox online at https://www.samaritanspurse.org/operation-christmas-child/buildonline/ The boxes built online can be more expensive, especially if you are a sale shopper BUT they have all approved items and can go anywhere in the world, including areas where there are many restrictions, such as Muslim nations. So please consider this option if you still want to do a box.

And it is NEVER too early to start shopping and crafting towards next years' boxes! There are still hundreds of millions of children around the world in desperate poverty and needing the love of Jesus.